Bob McDonald

9.5

A gorgeous red fruited perfumed nose which transfers to the rich totally integrated palate. Definitely one of Australia’s best Pinots and IMO as good as its Reserve in many years (the latter being significantly more expensive than the Premium). The new owner Jacques Fourrier now charges round $1500 for the Reserve so I have stopped buying it. I recently served the 2017 Premium blind to my wine tasting group and they all picked it as a Burgundy. — 5 days ago

Jeremy Pollard

9.2

Playing catch up on some wines consumed weeks ago. Lamenting the change to this gorgeous old Giant Steps label — boring minimalist is apparently the rage these days. Recall enjoying this one, and it’s in a good place. — 2 months ago

Austin Hohnke

9.2

Had to see what this was about. Featured in Somm 3. Bright and stemmy on pop and pour. Red berries and spice tones coming in hot initially. Absolutely reads new world. Softens with time in the glass. Tasty and sense heightening. — 3 months ago

Ross Bathgate

9.2

2012 Jimmy Watson winner. No Bin 1 or Thompson family made in 20111 due to wet year so all the best fruit in this wine, drinking very nicely but noticeably greenish and lighter due to poor year. — 5 months ago

Angela Filosa

9.5

omg got better and better even a week later — 6 months ago

Kaitlyn Kosarek

9.0

Sweet but not overly, smokey, fruit notes coming through. Pleasant — 7 months ago

Ruud Verhagen

9.3

one of the best seconds….👌🏼 — 8 months ago

Doug Powers

9.1

Lovely dark fruits, rich without being heavy, nice balance, good length, very fine Aussie Shiraz! — 17 days ago

with Jim

Jeremy Pollard

9.1

Still playing catch up from weeks ago. Good classic pinot lines at the weightier end of things. Don’t think it’s improving anymore, but may hold for a few years. — 2 months ago

John Howard

Harvest production at Hirsch and Cobb Wineries

9.0

@"Odedi" said it well. Nice. — 3 months ago

Bobbi Jo Broxson

9.2

Sadly we are running out of this super delicious OR Pinot. — 5 months ago

with Tammy, Emmett and 1 other

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.2

Atherton Wine Imports 2026 tasting at République, Los Angeles. 2022 vintage. Better, longer finish than the 2021 version. Dark plum and cassis ruling the roost here. 3.18.26. — 6 months ago

Bob McDonald

9.1

Sweet black fruits - plums. Only medium weight - restrained. 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc, 5% Malbec and 5% Petit Verdot. 2012 was a cooler more moderate growing season, more claret style says Sam Middleton. This is not one of the great Quintets IMO. At its best Quintets is one of the best Cabernet blends in Australia. It still reinforces the fact that the Yarra Valley is one of the better terroirs for Bordeaux blends in Australia. Not for long cellaring. This is first of 3 of the 2012 vintage I have in my cellar. — 7 months ago

Fabio Franchella

9.2

Superintense in the nose. Torf, rauch, speckig, teerig, leichtenzedernote, viel rückaromen. Nir och dezente dunkelkirschige frucht — 9 months ago

with Xenia

Alberto Cdm

9.4

Molto molto buono — 2 months ago

Charlie Abbott

Sommelier Casa Mono

8.9

Wayyyyyy too tightly wound to be enjoyed currently, intensely citric and leesy — 2 months ago

MICHAEL COOPER DipWSET

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.3

89% Merlot - 11% Cabernet Franc #pomerol — 2 months ago

Bob McDonald

9.6

Aromatics of struck match, lime and grapefruit - on the palate a surprising luscious texture. Overall there is fruit and mineral intensity. A fabulous new World Chardonnay - one of Australia’s best. A few years ago I conducted a blind tasting of 2015 Chardonnays which included all of Australia’s best like Giaconda and Leeuwin Art Series and a Premier Cru white burgundy just to make things interesting - the consensus winner on the day was the Bindi Quartz. — 5 months ago

Bob McDonald

9.7

One of the best Pinots I’ve had from anywhere this year. Also I should state the only note I’ve been able to put on Delectable out of 4 attempts. The previous 3 have disappeared. Light in colour and a beautifully fragrant wine with Medium + intensity. 98 points from Huon Hooke and he made this comment, “A mesmerising wine - surely one of Bindi’s best ever “. I can only agree. This is a top quality Pinot Noir no matter the origin and will probably reach the end of HH’s drinking window of 2034. This Is easily of Premier Cru and in some cases Grand Cru standard. — 6 months ago

Pinotman /// Andreas

9.5

97P WS, Whopping 15.5%. At the edge of where natural yeast dies. May be they used designer yeast? Anyways this is actually pretty good. Enormously complex with a bazillion interesting flavors including Eucalyptus. Picked this up for a tasting (I am hosting) it will be a mega hit. Folks will love this in your face flavor hammer. Isn’t it nice what a classicist is doing for his friends? — 7 months ago